BIG Alumni

Tiffany Amariuta
Advisor: Soumya Raychaudhuri
Tell us a bit about yourself. What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I majored in Biological Engineering at MIT and minored in French. I participated in research experiences at MIT for my first 3 years...
Tiffany Amariuta

Eric Bartell
Advisor: Joel Hirschhorn
Tell us a bit about yourself. What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? During undergrad, I studied computer science and biology, and worked with Dr. Laurie Boyer investigating cardiomyocyte...
Eric Bartell

Surge Biswas
Advisor: George Church
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I majored in Math/Statistics. Before grad school I worked on engineering plants to be more resistant to disease and climate change using a mix of experimental and...
Surge Biswas

Zachary Chiang
Advisor: Jason Buenrostro
I joined BIG right after graduating from UC San Diego with a degree in Bioengineering. I spent time in several research groups during undergrad, but the most formative experience was using Hi-C data to study non-coding variation with a postdoc in Bing Ren...
Zachary Chiang

Ryan Collins
Advisor: Mike Talkowski
Your hometown/city/country I grew up in a small town in central New Hampshire named Etna. Tell us a bit about yourself. I have one younger brother and live in Brookline with wife and our dog. I love spending time outdoors by hiking, skiing, running...
collins_ryan.

Guanlan Dong
Advisor: E. Alice Lee
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I double majored in Mathematics and Computer Science with a minor in Bioinformatics at Washington University in St. Louis. During my undergraduate years, I mainly...
Guanlan Dong

Yasha Ektefaie
Advisor: Maha Farhat
Hometown: Bay Area, CA. Tell us a bit about yourself. Completed my undergrad at UC Berkeley, with majors in BioEngineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS for those who are attune with the memes). Why did you choose BIG? Amazing...
Yasha Ektefaie

Jean Fan
Advisor: Peter Kharchenko
What is your academic background? I studied biomedical engineering and applied math at Johns Hopkins University in undergrad and attended the Montgomery Blair Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program in high school. What research...
Jean Fan

Teng Gao
Advisors: Peter Kharchenko and Peter Park
What research experience did you have before grad school? I worked as a computational biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, where I studied clonal hematopoiesis (clonal mutations in the blood) in 32,000 cancer patients profiled by...
Teng Gao

Alex Garruss
Advisor: George Church
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I completed a master’s degree in computer science before joining the Stowers Institute for Medical Research as a bioinformatics analyst. What is your research area...
Alex Garruss

Anika Gupta
Advisor: Eric Lander and Soumya Raychaudhuri
Why did you choose BIG? I'm keen on developing and applying tools in data science to reveal biological insights that can make medicine proactive. Bioinformatics sits at the ideal intersection for making such findings, so I am keen on exploring and...
Anika Gupta

Yixuan He
Advisor: Chirag Patel
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I am a first year student at BIG who graduated from Dartmouth College this past June with a double major in Biology and Mathematics. In my undergraduate career, I...
Yixuan He

Raehoon Jeong
Advisor: Martha Bulyk
Hometown/city/country I am from Seoul, Korea. I spent most of my life there, prior to college. Why did you choose BIG? The scale and breadth of biomedical research being done within the Harvard community, as well as the Boston area, are just amazing...
Raehoon Jeong

Joyce Kang
Advisor: Soumya Raychaudhuri
Tell us a bit about yourself. Hi! I'm Joyce, an MD/PhD student in the Raychaudhuri Lab currently working on developing computational methods for single-cell RNA-seq. I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and double-majored in Computer Science and Biology at...
Joyce Kang

Mark Keller
Advisor: Nils Gehlenborg
Hometown: New Jersey, United States. What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? As an undergraduate, I studied Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. I was a member of...
Mark Keller

Kate Lachance
Advisor: Stirling Churchman
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I lab-hopped a lot in undergrad, working on everything from the mathematics of different voting systems to the conservation of long noncoding RNAs. My Biology and...
Kate Lachance

Daniel Lee
Advisor: Shamil Sunyaev
Tell us a bit about yourself. Although I was born in the States, I lived more than ten years in South Korea! I love talking about Korean food/culture to my friends. I also enjoy playing pickup soccer during my free time. What is your academic background...
Daniel Lee

Michelle Li
Advisor: Marinka Zitnik
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I majored in Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford University with an honors focus in Computational Genomics. During my undergrad, I helped develop...
Michelle Li

Andrew Liu
Advisor: Mike Springer
Tell us a bit about yourself. I'm from Palo Alto, California. I studied math and computer science at Harvard for undergrad, and then worked for three years in software engineering and as a data scientist in Purvesh Khatri's lab at Stanford. For the PhD, I...
Andrew Liu

Jacob M. Luber
Advisor: Meromit Singer
Tell us a bit about yourself. I am working in Aleksandar Kostic’s lab interrogating interactions between the gut microbiome and host in the context of metabolism and immunity. In my free time, I enjoy wilderness backpacking. What is your academic...
Jacob M. Luber

Gaurav Luthria
Advisor: Miles Miller
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? I completed my undergraduate education at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where I studied bioinformatics and computer science. Prior to joining BIG...
Gaurav Luthria

Eduardo Maury
Advisor: Christopher Walsh
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school? Bachelor's in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where I focused on Alzheimer's Disease research for three years. I'm currently part of the MD-PhD program at...
Eduardo Maury

Aparna Nathan
Advisor: Soumya Raychaudhuri
What is your academic background? What research experience did you have before grad school?: I came to BIG right after undergrad, where I majored in Computer Science and Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry. Before grad school, I was originally an...
Aparna Nathan